Governing Immigration Through Crime A Reader

Name: Governing Immigration Through Crime A Reader
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ISBN: 9780804778817

ISBN-10: 0804778817

ISBN-13: 9780804778817

Edition: 2013

Authors: Julie A. Dowling, Jonathan Xavier Inda

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In the United States, immigration is generally seen as a law and order issue. Amidst increasing anti-immigrant sentiment, unauthorized migrants have been cast as lawbreakers.Governing Immigration Through Crimeoffers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of crime and punishment to manage undocumented immigrants.Presenting key readings and cutting-edge scholarship, this volume examines a range of contemporary criminalizing practices: restrictive immigration laws, enhanced border policing, workplace audits, detention and deportation, and increased policing of immigration at the state and local level. Of equal importance, the readings highlight how migrants have managed to…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 3/27/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Governing Migrant Illegality




Law and Criminalization



The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant "Illegality"




The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime, and Sovereign Power




The Security Myth: Punishing Immigrants in the Name of National Security




Managing Borders



Constructing a Virtual Wall: Race and Citizenship in U.S.-Mexico Border Policing




Spectacle in the Desert: The Minuteman Project on the U.S.-Mexico Border




Bare Life: Border-Crossing Deaths and Spaces of Moral Alibi




Policing the Interior



The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions




Arizona's SB 1070: Setting Conditions for Violations of Human Rights Here and Beyond




Immigration as Local Politics: Re-Bordering Immigration Through Deterrence and Incapacitation




Detention and Deportation



Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention




"ï¿½ Quien sabe? ": Deportation and Temporality Among Transnational Mexicans




Exiled by Law: Deportation and the Inviability of Life




Immigrant Contestations



(Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Rhetoric, Hybridity, and Citizenship in La Gran Marcha




Left Out but Not Shut Down: Political Activism and the Undocumented Student Movement




From Border Control to Border Care: The Political and Ethical Potential of Surveillance



Index